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Contributions to the knowledge of the older Mesozoic flora of Virginia

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William Morris Fontaine

Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879, Volume I

The leading purpose df this volume was determined by the following enactment, being section 1, chapter 121, of the Laws of 1876. "The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. That in the preparation of his final report, the chief geologist be, and he is hereby authorized to collate the general geology and the leading facts and principles
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T.C. Chamberlin

Gold and silver conversion tables, giving the coining values of troy ounces of fine metal, and the weights of fine metal represented by given sums of United States money

No abstract available.
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Albert Williams

Mineral resources of the United States, 1882

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Albert Williams

On hypersthene andesite and on triclinic pyroxene in augitic rocks

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Whitman Cross, Samuel Franklin Emmons

The copper-bearing rocks of lake Superior

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Roland Duer Irving

The tertiary lake-basin at Florissant, Colorado, between South and Hayden Parks

The following remarks are based upon collections and notes made during a visit to Florissant, in the summer of 1877, in company with Messrs. Arthur Lakes, of Golden, Colo., and F. C. Bowditch, of Boston, Mass. As five days only were spent in the place, most of the time was given up to the collection and care of specimens, so that only a general survey of the locality was possible. Mr. Lakes especi
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Samuel H. Scudder

Third Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1881-1882

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J. W. Powell

Twelfth Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: A report of progress of the exploration in Wyoming and Idaho for the year 1878, Part II: Yellowstone National Park

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Twelfth Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: A report of progress of the exploration in Wyoming and Idaho for the year 1878, Part I: Geology, paleontology, and zoology

This report includes the labors of the corps for the field season of 1878, and the office work until the close of the existence of the Survey by law June 30, 1879. Several of the members have, however, performed very important work since that time in elaborating their individual reports, which has added greatly to their interest and value.A general summary of the work for the season of 1878 will b
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F. V. Hayden

Volume III: The vertebrata of the Tertiary formations of the West

No abstract available.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Edward D. Cope

Volume VIII: Contributions to the fossil flora of the Western Territories, Part III: The Cretaceous and Tertiary flora

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Leo Lesquereux